The Hummer (Wagga Wagga, NSW : 1891 - 1892)

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The Australian Worker was a newspaper produced in Sydney, New South Wales for the Australian Workers' Union. It was published from 1890 to 1950.

The newspaper had its origin in The Hummer,[1] "Official organ of the Associated Riverina Workers", a newspaper produced in Wagga Wagga in the depths of the 1890s depression on 19 October 1891. The paper was jointly funded by the Wagga branches of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia and the General Workers' Union, which merged in 1894 to form the Australian Workers' Union. The Hummer was the first union-owned newspaper in New South Wales (there was a privately owned pro-labor paper called The Shearers' Record published by Andrews and Taylor), and was born out of the perception that many or most mainstream newspaper proprietors and editors were sufficiently hostile to Unionism to suppress or mutilate letters and news items sympathetic to workers' rights, and to come down heavily on the side of business owners in any dispute. The men behind this bold move, which may have contravened the constitutions of the unions involved, were Wagga Branch officials Walter Head, Arthur Rae and J. J. Mooney. Later a share was sold to the Labor Electoral League.[2] and the last issue 3 September 1892.

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Related Titles

Later
The Worker (Wagga, NSW : 1892 - 1913)
Later
The Australian Worker (Sydney, NSW : 1913 - 1950)

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Details

Title
The Hummer..
Publisher
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2014.
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
Notes
  • Title from title screen.
  • Digitised as part of the "Digitised newspapers and more" which allows access to historic Australian periodicals.
  • Also available in print and on microfilm.
  • Electronic reproduction of:
  • Wagga, [New South Wales] : Arthur Rae and W. W. Head, 1891-1892.
ISSN
2203-0700
Life dates
Vol. 1, no. 1 (October 19, 1891)-vol. 1, no. 46 (September 17, 1892)
Later title
  • Worker (Sydney, N.S.W. : Online) 2202-8927
Place
Australia New South Wales Wagga Wagga.

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